10/14/2025
Nutritionist Mia Rigden, whose posts and Substack I adore, () wrote about a new high fiber bar on the market, by the creator of Jeni’s ice cream. There is so much great stuff in the article (“Is fiber the new protein?”), but my main takeaway is that eating “real” foods, such as lentils with 16g fiber and 18g protein, will always trump a packaged one nutritionally.
This blitz of high protein and high fiber packaged foods often have a lot of additives — those ingredients you can’t spell or pronounce that I generally try to avoid. Also, eating a Bootylicious Double Chocolate muffin with 25g protein is simply NOT the same as having a smoothie loaded with plants and one ingredient foods like chia seeds and nut butter. Just like snacking on Khloe Kardashian’s “Khloud Protein Popcorn” (7g protein for 3 cups and 150 cals) isn’t the nutritional equivalent of snacking on hard boiled eggs, nuts, and/or cottage cheese with a clementine in the late afternoon. It’s being called the “high protein snack solution”, but I still say real food is the real solution.
